Celebrating 4 shortlistings at the CRN Channel Awards and Comms National Awards

Bring on the awards ceremonies: we’ve been shortlisted for an award at the CRN Channel Awards, and three at the Comms National Awards!

Here’s the rundown of how we made finalist for each.

Both CRN and CNA are recognising us for our response to COVID-19.

When the pandemic hit, we worked fast to support our partners and key workers by connecting a pop-up COVID-19 hospital, powering 65 COVID-19 testing stations across the country, and gearing up many of our partners with 4G home Mi-Fis.

But our biggest project was connecting the UK’s children to their education. When schools closed in March, the home became the new classroom as students shifted to online learning; but many didn’t have internet access, with some schools reporting up to 24% of their students were without connectivity.

We sent 55,000 home Mi-Fis equipped with our unsteered Multi-network SIMs to digitally-excluded UK students, enabling them to attend online classes, conduct research, and liaise with both teachers and friends. And we added our network-level mobile content filtering to the solution, so the kids were kept safe from malware, adult content, and harmful messages.

We’re finalists for the CNA’s Best Wholesale Service Provider title for the opportunities we’ve brought to our partners over the last year, including through the months of lockdown. Connectivity is in higher demand than ever before, and our new products are paving the way for partner success: content filtering is mandatory for many businesses now that the world must shift to digital, and L2TP is every ISPs key to victory in the mobile market.

And we’ve been shortlisted for the support we provide through our Pangea Hub, where our partners can access goldmine of IoT content, receive provisioning support, troubleshoot issues, and customise their connectivity; all under the guidance of our live support team.

We also updated our UK mobile coverage checker to include 5G networks, and moved it to our website so the whole Channel can access it to plan their solution deployments.

Best of luck to friends and colleagues in the Channel who are up for awards at these events. See you at the show(s)!